Oil tanker runs aground off Chennai coast

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Oil tanker runs aground off Chennai coast

Nov 02, 2012, 02.11 PM IST

Text: PTI

Search operations were intensified to trace five missing crew of an oil tanker that ran aground off a city beach hours before the landfall of cyclone "Nilam" that swept through the northern parts of Tamil Nadu.

Coast Guard rescued 15 sailors, who were stranded onboard the tanker 'Pratibha Cauvery' that drifted in high velocity winds before it ran aground near the Eliotts Beach in South Chennai yesterday.